My 34th Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 34, perhaps the most boring age on the planet. 34 is no different from 33. Now 35? That’s an important birthday–officially on the downward slope to 40.

Oddly enough, I spent the night before my birthday making a birthday cake for someone else. Even more odd, I took it to a birthday party that wasn’t for me or the person whose cake I was making.

It was a surprise party for my husband’s grandmother, who thought she was coming to my birthday party (though I suspect she wasn’t really buying that.) It was very sweet because her daughter, who lives in China, came in for the occasion and she wasn’t expecting that. The look on her face was priceless.

Anyway, the cake. I know you want a picture. I will oblige. It is a “sewing” theme cake and one that I made up as I went along. I think it turned out pretty cute.

As with all my cakes, I was up until the wee hours of the morning, decorating. It doesn’t matter when I start a cake, I’m always up at 2 AM. When I finally decided to go to bed, my sick little girl woke me up, crying, because her ears hurt. By the time I got her back to bed, it was after 4:00. I went to bed and then woke up at 8:00 and had to clean up some vomit. My poor little sick girl had coughed until she gagged.

Not a great start to a birthday.

But it got better.

I got to eat some good barbecue at the birthday party. And I got to watch my beloved University of Kentucky Wildcats beat the despised University of Louisville Cardinals. Goodness, it felt good to admit I despise the Cards.

On Facebook, everybody is so polite and sportsmanlike about the whole thing. I don’t get it. What’s the point of a rivalry if there’s no hate and vitriol involved? Just because some people start taking the trash talk personally, like they play for the team or something, I’m supposed to be “classy” and write things like, “Good game” or “Congrats UL for making the Final Four?”

Psshhhht.

What I really want to write is, “Neener, neener, neener. We won and you lost because you suck and we don’t.”

Yeah, I know, I’m acting 4, not 34. Whatever. Shut up. Point is, the UK made it to the National Championship Game and I’m really excited because they’ll be playing Kansas. Why? Becausewriting UK-KU makes me happy because it’s symmetrical and I love symmetry. Yeah, I know, I’m a weirdo. Whatever. Shut up.

So, that was my birthday. Well, part of it, anyway. I get to have a Part II–dinner out with the husband on Friday night while my saint of a mother in law keeps all five of the kids.